Summary on technology of product family design oriented to customzed mass production

Along with the increasingly sharp of market competition, both traditional mass production and customized production with unitary mode have lost their advantages in market competition.The mode of customized mass production has already become an inevitable trend in the development of manufacturing industry.It tried to combine the advantages of high efficiency and low cost of mass production with the advantages of flexibility and individual characterization of customized production.To develop the design of product family is an effective way of realizing customized mass production.The relationship between customized mass production and design of product family was discussed.A systematic arrangement and classification were conducted upon the documets related to product family design at home and abroad.The frame system of product family design is put forward,and the realization method of product family design has been introduced.